Publication Date:
2014-07-02
Description:
This paper presents two digital transmission techniques for long haul ionospheric links. Since 2003 we have studied the HF link between the Antarctic Spanish Base, Juan Carlos I, and Spain and we have described the link in terms of availability, signal to noise ratio (SNR) and delay and Doppler power profile. Based on these previous studies we have developed a test bed to investigate two digital transmission techniques, i.e. Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, which can provide a low power, low rate ionospheric data link from Antarctica. Symbol length, bandwidth and constellation are some of the features that are analyzed in this work. Data gathered from the link throughout the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 Antarctic surveys show that spread spectrum techniques can be used to transmit data at low rate when the channel forecast is poor but when the channel forecast is good multicarrier techniques can be used to transmit sporadic bursts of data at higher rate.
Print ISSN:
0048-6604
Electronic ISSN:
1944-799X
Topics:
Geosciences
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Physics
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